Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-15
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

"Youth in Twelve Centuries is a little
book giving in poetry the story of promi-
nent characters in history in centuries rang
ing from 1900 B. G. to 1912 A. D. Among
the characters are Taia, of Thebes; Claudia
and Vespatian, of Rome; Gamaliel, of Jeru-
salem; Zahra, of Bagdad; Lippo, of Flor
ence; Andre, of Paris; Jonathan, of Boston;
and Dorothy, of Philadelphia. The poems
are by NJ. E. B. The drawings are those of
F. Childe Hassam. D. Lothrop & Co., pub
fishers, Boston. For sale in this city by
Judd the bookseller.
Arthur Symons has recently prepared
'sIntroduction to the Study of Browning"
1t is work which directs attention to the
best of this poet, and gives information more
or less detailed about each of his works.
At the end are reprinted the interesting and
now almost inaccessible prefaces to some of
his earlier works. The book is divided
follows: General characteristics; character
istics of the poems; appendix-a biography
of Robert Browning and the reprint of the
discarded prefaces. To one contemplating
the study of Browning the work will be very
valuable. Cassel & Co., publishers, New
York. For sale in this city by Judd the
bookseller.
''Ways and Means is new novel from
the pen of Margaret Vandegrift, author of
''Doris ard Theodore, ''The Queens Body
guard" etc. The book is one which presents
a variety of scenes and of reading in the
same story. The plot is we'll developed and
suggestive; the characters are well drawn
and the methods set forth in the work are i'll
general excellent and worth remenl bering
For light reading it is excellent and for fc-
ton strangely real. The author will be re-
membered by her former works, and her new
work will no doubt meet with the same gen.
erous reception its predecessors. Porter
& Coates, publishers, Philadelphia. For sale
in this city by Judd the bookseller.
STANLEY Huntingdon" is an interesting
novel by Sydney j. Wilson. It is work
tracing the development of mind in the
South, which is disencumbering itself of the
ideas and customs with which it has hereto
fore been surrounded and moving out into
the broad paths of progress. This is the au-
thor's idea, and as type of this movement
young doctor is taken at twenty one years
of age firmly abreast with the times, one of
the first in the medical profession. The
book has many lines of thought suggestive
and valuable to the young reader. The |
analysis of the development represented is
striking though concise, and readily yields |
the fruit which it was intended to bring |
forth. The style is accurate and novel. |
Every reader will be interested in the de- |
scription of southern life and character set
forth in the work. j. B. Lippincott & Co,
publishers, Philadelphia. For sale in this
city by judd the bookseller.
The fourth volume of ''ActoIs and Ac-
tresses of Great Britain and the United
States From the Days of David Garrick to
rhe Present Time is now ready It contains
sketches OF Maeready and Forrest and their
contemporaries. Among the articles are
those on 'Macready and Forrest" by Law
renee Barrett; edwin L. Davenport" by
Henry Edwards; "John Mccullough" by
William Winter; "Adelaide Nelson" by
G. Buell. ''Frederic Robson" by Edv ard
Hamilton Bell, C. The work is edited by
Brander Matthews and Lawrence Huttol.
1t is full of information on the subject with
which it deals, and gives history of the
stage in the line and characteristics of it's
publishers, New York. For sale in this city
by Judd the bookseller.
In the new work GA Guide to Elementary
Chemistry for Beginners the author, LIE
Row G. Cooley, Phi. D.. professor of ehemis-
try in Vassar college, has made iudicious
selectIen of the most fundamental facts aud
principles of chemistry, and presented them
in such way that the student must con
stantly use his senses to discover facts, his
reason in drawing correct inferences from
the data he collects, and good English in eX-
pressing accurately what he sees and thinks.
The book is of experimental chemistry,
calling for the simplest and least expensive
kind of apparatus. It is entirely new and
presents the latest results of scientific inres-
tigation. Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor & Co.,
publishers, New York. For sale in this city
by Judd the bookseller